Abstract: A system wherein suspended solids are separated from liquids by passage through a filter after a precoat of filter aid has been deposited on a filter septum. The subsequent addition of filter aid to the liquid and its deposit on the precoat are so regulated that the filter cake produced maintains a practical specific cake resistance to flow therethrough at a preselected value, even if the concentration of suspended solids varies with time, said value being the ratio .DELTA.R/.DELTA.W, where .DELTA.W is a small increment of filter aid weight fed and .DELTA.R is an incremental increase in cake resistance to flow corresponding to that increment .DELTA.W, both increments being on a per unit of filtration area, and the resistance to flow being the differential pressure across the filter cake divided by the flow rate per unit of filtration area.

Abstract: For use with a bottle containing pressurized carbonated water-based liquid contents and having an elongated neck portion with at least one annular flange adjacent its mouth, a corking unit of a one-piece elastomeric construction comprising a stopper with a head and a ring below and spaced from the head and molded and concentric with the stopper, the ring being located above the flange upon initial reception of the stopper in the neck, the internal diameter of the ring being slightly less than the internal diameter of the flange and the ring being capable of being pushed down mechanically over the flange in order to be above to be expanded upon passage over the flange and to constrict below the flange for captive retention on the neck, and a set of flexible elongated tethers having one end connected to the ring and the other to the head, the points of connection of the tethers to the ring being mutually spaced and the points of connection of the tethers to the head being mutually spaced, the tethers being fold

Abstract: A closure arrangement for stoppering bottles with pressurized, carbonated, water-based liquid contents which comprises in combination; a bottle having a body portion, an elongated neck portion with two annular flanges thereon, and a mouth portion; and a one-piece elastomeric plastic molded corking means having an elongated cylindrical stopper insertable into the mouth of the bottle, a head connected to the stopper, an annular, circumferential ring positioned below the head, concentric with the stopper and capable of being received between the two annular flanges, a flexible, elongated folded tether connecting the ring to the head, and a plurality of short frangible bridges connecting the ring to the head, said bridges breaking when the ring is forced between the two flanges. The elongated tether provides a means for preventing injury when the cork is removed from the bottle.

Abstract: A closure arrangement for stoppering bottles with pressurized, carbonated, water-based liquid contents which comprises in combination; a bottle having a body portion, an elongated neck portion with two annular flanges thereon, and a mouth portion; and a one-piece elastomeric plastic molded corking means having an elongated cylindrical stopper insertable into the mouth of the bottle, a head connected to the stopper, an annular, circumferential ring positioned below the head, concentric with the stopper and capable of being received between the two annular flanges, a flexible, elongated folded tether connecting the ring to the head, and a plurality of short frangible bridges connecting the ring to the head, said bridges breaking when the ring is forced between the two flanges. The elongated tether provides a means for preventing injury when the cork is removed from the bottle.

Abstract: A closure arrangement for stoppering bottles with pressurized, carbonated, water-based liquid contents which comprises in combination; a bottle having a body portion, an elongated neck portion with two annular flanges thereon, and a mouth portion; and a one-piece elastomeric plastic molded corking means having an elongated cylindrical stopper insertable into the mouth of the bottle, a head connected to the stopper, an annular, circumferential ring positioned below the head, concentric with the stopper and capable of being received between the two annular flanges, a flexible, elongated folded tether connecting the ring to the head, and a plurality of short frangible bridges connecting the ring to the head, said bridges breaking when the ring is forced between the two flanges. The elongated tether provides a means for preventing injury when the cork is removed from the bottle.